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VARLEY HALLS, Chalvington Close, Brighton, BN1 9GR (Varley Park Coldean Lane Brighton)

BH2015/03131Removal or Variation of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 14 April 2016

Council decision: Approved after Section 106 signedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for variation of condition 53 of BH2010/00235 as amended by BH2015/02345 -Demolition of existing student halls of residence to provide replacement facilities between 3 and 5 storeys including 564 bed spaces, seminar rooms, a café/bar, laundry facilities, car parking, cycle parking and associated landscaping) to allow for minor material amendments including an increase in number of rooms in Hill House 1 from 48 to 59 with revised fenestration on the ground floor, additional rooflights on third and fourth floor and relocation of ICT and general store to ground floor and additional kitchen facilities, an increase in number of rooms in Hill House 2 from 54 to 66 with revised fenestration on the ground floor, additional rooflights on the third and fourth floors and relocation of ICT store to ground floor and additional kitchen facilities and alterations to the substation.

Received
25 August 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
13
Ward
Hollingdean And Stanmer
  1. Received25 Aug
  2. Validated22 Oct
  3. Consult.13 Nov
  4. Target21 Jan
  5. Decided14 Apr

Decided in 175 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at VARLEY HALLS, Chalvington Close, Brighton, BN1 9GR (Varley Park Coldean Lane Brighton). Brighton and Hove has handled 498 applications of this type. This one was decided in 233 days, 24 weeks longer than Brighton and Hove's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,684 applications in total for the BN1 postcode area.

95% of conditions applications at Brighton and Hove City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BN1 9GR
Application type
Removal or Variation of Condition
Development type
variation of condition
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 October 2015
Consultation expiry
18 November 2015
Consultation start
23 October 2015
Consultation end
13 November 2015
Neighbour consultation start
23 October 2015
Target decision date
21 January 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mr Mark Lewis
Agent address
61 North Street Chichester PO19 1NB

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
23 October 2015
Site notice end
18 November 2015

Additional information

Documents
30
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2015
    25 Aug

    Application for variation of condition 53 of BH2010/00235

    This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)BH2015/03131
  2. 2015
    24 Jun

    Non Material Amendment to BH2010/00235

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentPart ofBH2015/02345

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